Word: stroke
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...increasing body mass in humans as an impending disaster. The bleak diagnosis is that as a species we're carrying too much lard, exposing every system of the body to heightened risk of disease. Amid constant warnings about soaring rates of diabetes and links between fat and heart attack, stroke, dementia, cancer, arthritis and a myriad of other conditions, a view is taking hold that obesity will reverse the millennium-long trend of rising human life expectancy-that today's children will die younger than their parents. In Australia and New Zealand, various groups are pushing for numerous anti...
...healthy, just as they can be thin and sick. "It really doesn't make sense to call obesity a disease-it's a risk factor," says Stephen MacMahon, principal director of The George Institute for International Health, in Sydney. Moreover, it's a risk factor for maladies-heart disease, stroke, and even type 2 diabetes-that strike thin people...
...right now, the real crisis will come if the city can't resolve the post-Katrina lack of primary care and rising depression. "In five years, we'll be the stroke capital of the world, the heart disease capital of the world," warns DeBlieux. "We're going to see long-range complications from diabetes and heart disease and stress because people are neglecting primary care...
...shortcomings of fMRIs may be more serious. Physical anomalies such as evidence of a stroke or tumor can interfere with the scan's accuracy. And the test is administered in a decidedly unnatural way--with the subject lying down inside a giant magnet. Since speaking aloud activates regions of the brain that could swamp lie-detection results, subjects are asked yes-or- no questions and then instructed to push a button to answer. Maybe the brain operates the same way with a push-button fib as with a verbal one--but maybe it doesn't. And because...
...Coumadin is the "blood thinner" we use when you've had a stroke, heart valve replacement or blood clot. It works by poisoning an enzyme in your liver that helps produce clotting factors. Its blood thinning (anticoagulating) effect comes on slowly but can quickly become (dangerously) greater than we want when you take different drugs or even different foods. The anticoagulation we want can easily overshoot - with dire consequences. It also can render ineffective or too effective, other drugs that are processed in the liver. Getting you on just the right dose of coumadin takes about a week, then...